Warning: Do not use SiteMeter

If you use SiteMeter.com to keep track of your visitors and readers, this post may be important to you.
I’ve often noticed that my blogs and sites tend to be sluggish when loading in the browser. Trying to identify the source of the slowness, I’d usually look at the bottom of my browser where the various [...]

Dishonest bloggers give all bloggers a bad rap

I’ve written about this before. Unfortunately, Robert Jago continues to lie to and con his readers.
You see, his blog was never very popular (bad spelling, uninteresting posts, etc.), so he came up with a shtick: publish a monthly ranking of the best 25 political blogs in Canada.
The only trouble is that his ranking is a [...]

Layout adjustment

Folks, if you go to www.WernerPatels.com (or www.WernerPatels.ca) and www.Conservative-Digest.com, you’ll see that I have reduced the width of the main column. Why? Because the number of readers who access my sites from mobile devices (smartphones, iPhone, etc.) is growing steadily, and I was told recently that the wide format I used to have in [...]

I think I’m finally done …

As you know, I’ve been doing some “summer cleaning” of my web presence, but now, I think, I’m finally done rearranging everything.
Here’s what you must bookmark or add to your favourites if you want to follow my musings – and who doesn’t, right?
My Web Column: www.WernerPatels.com (also at www.WernerPatels.ca)
My Blog: www.conservative-digest.com
Note: [...]

Blog cleaning – complete!

Finally! It’s done! I’ve finished cleaning up my site (www.WernerPatels.com), leaving only my web columns (at least 600-800 words) and some of the blog posts that have become big hits with readers as well as Google search favourites.
From now on, though, only my web columns will be posted to www.WernerPatels.com.
For daily blog musings, visit www.Conservative-Digest.com.  [...]

Liberal blogger bids adieu

This is the kind of thing that pulls at my heartstrings and can send me into a torrent of tears:
Some of you who have followed this humble blog since its inception may have known that I was lucky enough to have survived a run-in with cancer a few years ago. Although I won that little [...]

25 things about me

Bruce Stewart has tagged me via a Facebook note.
So here are the rules:
1. Write a note revealing 25 things about yourself. Surprises and humour welcomed!
2. Tag the person who tagged you.
3. Tag 25 new people with your note.
This seems to be a Facebook tagging game, but I have decided to place a copy on my [...]

Garbage in, garbage out

I have begun cleaning house over at www.wernerpatels.com. In case you have not noticed, I have made the transition to providing full-length web columns on that site, rather than inane “blog posts”.
I have started deleting old posts (100 so far), leaving only the gems and my web columns (by definition, at least 600 words), of [...]

Liberalsonline.ca: a bunch of bozos

Yeah, that new “Liberal” blog aggregator has gathered up all the bright and intelligent Liberal minds in Canada.
No, not really. That was a bit of wry humour on my part. Truth is that LiberalsOnline.ca is the exact opposite of bright and intelligent. A quick look at the front page of their aggregated posts tonight revealed [...]

Robert Jago’s blogging scam

Robert has made this scam the staple of his sorry excuse for a blog. He picks, manually, a bunch of blogs he follows and then ranks them according to dubious criteria. He then publishes them as a monthly Best 25 Political Blogs.
One of those shady criteria is the Alexa ranking, one that requires users to [...]